Usually means: Intense, unpleasant taste; often disliked.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bitter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bitter, bitter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bitter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bitter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bitter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bitter, bitter: Wordnik
  7. bitter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bitter: Wiktionary
  9. bitter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bitter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bitter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bitter, bitter: Dictionary.com
  13. bitter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bitter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bitter (Meshell Ndegeocello album), Bitter (automobile), Bitter (beer), Bitter (disambiguation), Bitter (surname), Bitter (taste), Bitter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bitter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bitter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bitter: Rhymezone
  19. bitter, bitter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bitter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bitter: Free Dictionary
  22. bitter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Bitter, bitter: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. bitter: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. bitter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bitter: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Beer Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bitter: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bitter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bitter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bitter: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bitter: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bitter: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beer & Brewing Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Bitter: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  3. Bitter: Beauty & Health Glossary
  4. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  5. Bitter: Coffee Glossary
  6. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See bitterer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
adjective:  Harsh, piercing or stinging.
adjective:  Hateful or hostile.
adjective:  Cynical and resentful.
noun:  (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
noun:  A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
noun:  (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
verb:  To make bitter.
noun:  (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).

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